{"id":17091,"date":"2020-10-12T12:18:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T07:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=17091"},"modified":"2020-10-12T12:18:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T07:18:05","slug":"us-designates-nicaraguan-officials-financial-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/17091","title":{"rendered":"US designates Nicaraguan officials, financial institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US on Friday designated a Nicaraguan financial institution and two government officials over their alleged role to undermine the Central American nation\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The [President Daniel] Ortega regime continues to abuse government resources for its members\u2019 personal gain and ignore the Nicaraguan people\u2019s calls for reform,&#8221; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. &#8220;This Administration remains committed to targeting the Ortega regime by seeking out and exposing those who facilitate its blatant corruption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The agency designated Nicaraguan financial institution Cooperativa De Ahorro Y Credito Caja Rural Nacional RL (Caruna), Attorney General Ana Julia Guido De Romero, and Secretary of the Presidency Paul Herbert Oquist Kelley.<\/p>\n<p>The Caruna was designated for &#8220;serving as a tool for Ortega to siphon money&#8221; and materially assisting sponsored Banco Corporativo, S.A\u00a0 an entity whose property and interests in property are previously blocked, according to the Treasury.<\/p>\n<p>Guido, the attorney general, allegedly formed a group of prosecutors who, the Treasury said, worked with the designated National Police to fabricate cases against political prisoners and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Oquist was designated for playing &#8220;a lead role in spreading disinformation to cover up the regime\u2019s crimes and misdeeds of horrific human rights abuses.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA The US on Friday designated a Nicaraguan financial institution and two government officials over their alleged role to undermine the Central American nation\u2019s democracy. &#8220;The [President Daniel] Ortega regime continues to abuse government resources for its members\u2019 personal gain and ignore the Nicaraguan people\u2019s calls for reform,&#8221; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17093,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17091\/revisions\/17093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}